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studentconservators-resources: Mayan Blue Pigment Recipe Revealed In New Chemical Analysis Of Ancient Paint (Spoiler: the secret is copal, yay chemistry). Click HERE for full story.
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Without ever making a movie for solely commercial reasons, without ever having a dependable source of financing, without the attention of the studios and the oligarchies that decide what may be filmed and shown, you have directed at least 55 films or television productions, and we will not count the operas. You have worked all…
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We want to believe in talent. As Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.”, knowing that it protects us by degrading the very achievements that it pretends to elevate; magically separating us from those that are great athletes, ensuring that we are incompatible…
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…we found no statistically significant differences in standard measures of learning outcomes (pass or completion rates, scores on common final exam questions, and results of a national test of statistical literacy) between students in the traditional classes and students in the hybrid-online format classes…This finding, in and of itself, is not different from the results…
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once again, for emphasis
This is the issue at the heart of electronic literature (of all art, really) best expressed by William Morris, the ultimate craftsman of the Victorian age, “You can’t have art, without resistance in the materials.” Every authoring system in history— memory, pictographs, alphabets, the page, the pen, the printing press, the typewriter, the word processor,…
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floresuprm: “Marble Springs 3.0” by Deena Larsen This new version of Marble Springs, originally published in Hypercard in 1993 by Eastgate Systems (see yesterday’s entry for details), uses a contemporary authoring system that still can’t quite achieve Larsen’s vision for the work. Here’s Deena’s commentary in the “About Marble Springs” page, which also offers a…
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Reading straight ahead, at a sprint
Reading straight ahead, at a sprint austinkleon: Mark Athitakis lays out my biggest gripe about ebooks: [I read] almost always with a pen or pencil in my hand, ready to underline a sentence, scribble a margin note or, if I’m particularly struck by something, dash off a trio of exclamation points. I don’t think of…
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likeafieldmouse: Fabienne Verdier
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code as material,code as medium, versus algorithm as material,algorithm as medium, versus rule as material,rule as medium.
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Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to. vagabond (via loveyourchaos)